Research

In the broadest sense our researchers investigate ‘users’ – as consumers, providers, audiences, scholars and learners – and their interactions and engagements with digital media content and information based applications.

Our work straddles a range of interests in the fields of information science, communications, information behaviour, information and digital literacies, information architecture and design.

Particular research strengths exist in the following areas:

Information Interactions and DigitalTransformations focus on the study of people’s interactions and their impact in digital contexts. Current projects are looking at how people access, evaluate and use information, and how systems can be designed to support such information behaviour and literacies.

Creative Communications draws on the research in digital interactions and transformations and focuses on the design and development of new environments for communicating science, e-learning, storytelling, visualisations, and exhibits.  Current projects are focusing on the evaluation of the user experience in these digital environments.